[ILUG] Re: Sound card configuration

[Padraig Finnerty]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:02:34PM +0000 David Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently got a SB 16 PCI, and I was trying to get it configured to work
> properly with GNOME/E, but I've run into a few problems. The card was
> auto-detected, and reported no problems in configuration with sndconfig
> under RH 6.1, but several audio files give it problems, and none of the
> enlightenment or gnome sound events seem to work at all. 
> 
> I've tested the device files with a couple of test files, with cat
> crash.au > /dev/dsp and cat crash.au > /dev/audio, and some of them work
> while others are just garbled.

Sounds suspiciously like when I was trying to configure an 8-bit soundcard
last year (didn't realise at the time that it was 8-bit), the 8-bit
sounds files played ok and the 16-bit ones were garbled.  Try it with an
8-bit sound file and a 16-bit one ('file aufile.au' should tell you which
it is, sox will convert from one to the other).  Then hmm, I dunno, I have 
an sb16 and I don't load the es1371 module at all, the ones I load are

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
sb                     31416   0
uart401                 5588   0  [sb]
sound                  54368   0  [sb uart401]
soundcore               2088   6  [sb sound]
#

You're not using a Dell Optiplex or one of those are you?  This is what
I'm using and it has an on-board 8-bit sound chip, I think I had to
disable it in the BIOS or remove kernel support for it, so that it 
didn't get initialised on startup.

Padraig